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A tessellation or tiling of the plane is a collection of plane figures that fills the plane with no overlaps and no gaps. One may also speak of tessellations of the parts of the plane or of other surfaces. Generalizations to higher dimensions are also possible. Tessellations frequently appeared in the art of M.C. Escher. In Latin, tessella was a small cubical piece of clay, stone or glass used to make mosaics. The word "tessella" means "small square" (from "tessera", square, which in its turn is from the Greek word for "four"). It corresponds with the everyday term tiling which refers to applications of tessellation, often made of glazed clay. Tessellation in terms of tiling or mosaic means shapes - which can be regular, irregular, or representing a recognizable form - fitted together to form a pattern with no spaces between the shapes. The artist Maurice C Escher used tessellation a lot, quite brilliantly; you might like to look up his work on the internet.
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What is the meaning of the word 'tessellation?
A tessellation is created when a shape is repeated over without any gaps or any overlapping.Another word for it is tiling.A dictionary will probably tell you that the word tessellate means to arrange small squares in a pattern most likely to be checkered or mosaic styled.
What is the difference between a tessellation and a regular tessellation?
A regular tessellation is a tessellation composed entirely of congruent polygons - meaning that ALL shapes in the tessellation are the same. Only 3 regular tessellations exist: equilateral triangles, regular hexagons, and squares. A tessellation is any pattern of shapes which can be repeated infinitely throughout a plane without leaving any "spaces" between the connected patterns and also without any of the shapes overlapping each other.
What is the opposite of tessellation I think it's called overlapulation?
No, there is no such word such as "overlapulation".Tessellation cannot have a single antonym because it has several different characteristics. Tessellation requiresmultiple copies of the same shape, which will cover a planewithout gaps, oroverlaps.
Is a triangle a tessellation?
Yes it is a tessellation.
A tessellation that uses more than one kind of regular polygon is called an?
A tessellation that uses more than one kind of regular polygon is called a semi-regular tessellation.
